Friday, May 30, 2008

Both of my beds - my own, and the one in the guest bedroom - have bookcase headboards. (That's my guest bedroom above.) You don't tend to see these much anymore - I guess they're out of fashion - but they can be incredibly useful. Waterbed stores tend to have them - remember waterbeds? But you can find them a few other places, too.

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I had a nice big desk with a big hutch that got broke in a move. The hutch survived however, and my dad turned it into a headboard for me. I love having the shelves! He had to add additional support on the bottom to raise it high enough. It's not pretty, but it's functional, and I love it. :)

In my bedroom, my headboard used to just rest on the bed frame. That was scary, because it's a heavy headboard; now it's VERY well bolted to the wall.

In my guest bedroom, the headboard is part of the bed frame, so it's not going anywhere.

As to the contents ...

Generally, I've tried to keep the heavier stuff down low, so it won't hurt anyone if it falls. If you look at my guest bedroom picture, the books are all at mattress level. The tissue box is fine on the higher shelf - it won't hurt anyone if it falls on them!

I might go take some museum wax to the lamp, though, to keep it in place - and I just moved the clock on the lower level.

Although I have a fairly large house there is little or no storage areas in it. One cupboard, under the stairs, seems to hold a tremendous amount of junk "that I must keep" and various household essentials. Every spot including under all the beds is full of boxes storing some "must keep" items. A storage headboard sounds exactly what I need.

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